On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Bradley Slavik wrote:
> Dear V8 users group,
>
> I am looking for information about building V8 on Mac OS X. A few months
> ago when I researched it, it appeared that GYP was necessary to build V8.
> GYP required old Python 2 instead of Python 3 to be installed. Should this
> bother me? Should I just be downloading V8 instead of building my own? Is
> there a build which does not require me to have outdated Python installed on
> my computer? I had read some posts which suggested that GN might be used for
> building V8 in the near future. Is any of this necessary to become an expert
> at using Node.js and NPM?
>
> I know that I seem to have a lot of questions, but google has failed me when
> I tried to research these issues.
>
> Thanks for helping me out.
>
> Bradley Slavik
If you follow the instructions from [0], depot_tools will check out
GYP and the other prerequisites to a local directory. Don't bother if
you just want to play around with node.js and npm; V8 ships as part of
node.js, there is no need to build it yourself.
[0] https://code.google.com/p/v8-wiki/wiki/UsingGit
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